Posted on 05/11/2012 8:48:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I don’t buy that. What’s costing the Wii market is complete and utter saturation, plus building a quality console that doesn’t fail reliably, forcing you to buy replacements every so often to keep the investment in a game library and accessories usable.
We’ll see how small the PC gaming market is when Diablo 3 comes out next week. EA didn’t dance with the “ones the brung ya” and now reap their just rewards, anyway all their games now have consolitis.
Everybody is pinching pennies, stealing pennies and even melting pennies.
What was a social requirement of the latest fads like the newest smartphone and or other status toys such as laptops are not being bought so fast or as often, nobody has the “disposable income”.
Nokia is going to take another hard hit if the the first reviews for the new Samsung Galaxy III phone are accurate.
Well - the hub is still there - that is where the B&N store was. The dragstrip is long gone. We have light industrial over on that side of the freeway now. I took one of those glider rides back in the mid 80’s. It was a kick!
The FINALLY resurfaced the Nimitz - and it is called “880” now. There is still part of it that is Highway 17, but that is only from the 280 interchange over to Santa Cruz.
There is a HUGE new development by Durham and “880” where we have several stores including Lowes & Target. That is becoming a popular shopping area.
One thing that is likely different from when you lived here is that Mission San Jose High has become one of the top 100 Public High Schools in the country! (Last year #36, this year #67?) The demographic change has caused that. The Mission area is 80% Indian/Asian - and they care how their kids do in school - so MSJHS has become cut-throat!
Otherwise - it is still a bedroom community to Silicon Valley.
The problem with TVs these days is that they're all pretty much the same. If you take them apart and look at the guts, all the components are produced in the same factories by the same workers and assembled the same way. Only the brand nameplate at the bottom is different. And in Sony's case, the price.
I think Sony also took a hit on their expensive 3D LED TVs that turned out to be a huge disaster.
Yes, it was a boneheaded move for Sony to have their own memory card after SD became the industry standard. This is why I avoided buying a Sony digital camera. Sony seems to have a history of doing this. There's the Sony minidisc which, while building a small devoted following, eventually flopped and of course Sony gave us the Betamax. Funny, Sony's proprietary items are often superior to those which become the industry standard. They just don't catch on.
I do appreciate how well my Sony Playstation syncs with my Sony HDTV and Sony surround sound system. Of course, my second PS3 works just fine on the Sharp TV in the bedroom.
I know a lot of people that bought Wiis, but nobody uses them anymore. When was the last time you heard of a hot new game coming out on the Wii? Lots of big games coming out on PS3 and XBox360 all the time. The market says the Wii were a novelty, like a pet rock.
Oh there will be dead cat bounces. But the slide is pretty obvious, the PC game market is shrinking dramatically.
Thanks for the update. I really liked living there. I used to be the logistics guy for The Comfort Zone Waterbed Company, LOL! Bet you haven’t seen one of those for many moons too!
With Pete Stark publicly showing his dementia, will there be any chance the old coot will get his pink slip this November? One can only hope.
Well - I got an education today. Turns out that I no longer live in his district. Apparently, the line moved a bit North of where I live in the Mission district, and now Mike Honda is my Assemblyman. Anything would be an improvement.
To your question - he has a real contender on the democratic side for the first time ever. So yeah - he might finally be unseated. It’s certainly time for him to go.
Sony has traditionally failed because they were never good about integration or backwards compatability. Also they were ugly about insisting on their proprietary stuff like memory sticks in order to trap you into the sony products.
Nintendo, well they rejected Kinect.
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